Bookstore Cafe Blog
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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe News: It’s Almost Fall and We Are Back.
Art, Comedy, Memoir, Music, Film… We are starting up September with something for everyone. Like Haitian playwrights? Like funny Jews? Like classical composers? C’mon down! Like authors admitting their affairs, incarcerations and addictions? Meet us at the Brooklyn Book Festival! Like thousands of books even cheaper than usual? We have two 3-day sales in the next month!
And if you’re still on vacay? Bid on rare books from Langston Hughes to Gabriel García Márquez at Shop Housing Works. We’re never more than a click away, but we can’t wait to see you back in our cozy shop, nursing a class of wine and a 50-cent paperback.
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Rare Book Feature of the Week!
Here is a true rarity: the first book by fiction writer and women’s movement icon Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman, author of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Herland”, married the artist Charles Walter Stetson in 1884 but suffered from post-partum depression after the birth of her daughter Katherine. She separated from Stetson in 1888 (the year this book was published) to move back to California, and the two eventually divorced in 1894. Gilman then devoted her life to writing and activism, and she was an intellectual leader for such movements as birth control, immigration reform, women’s physical fitness, and even euthanasia. “In her time,” critics have written, “she was certainly the leading intellectual of the woman’s movement in the United States.” This book reproduces classic paintings which …
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Housing. Medical Care. Food.
Dear Friend,
Housing. Medical Care. Food.
This is a holiday wish list for the tens of thousands of homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.
As 2009 comes to a close, we ask Housing Works’ closest friends to consider making a year-end Membership or Annual Fund donation .
Now, more than ever, your support is needed. Your donation will directly fund vital services to the children, women, and men of Housing Works. All the things we so often take for granted, are what our clients wish for the most.
Of course, there are other ways to help. Whether you donate items to the Housing Works Book Store Café, Thrift Shops, or purchase unique holiday gifts for your friends, you …
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Rare Book Feature of the Week!
This wonderful illustration of colonial Philadelphia is just one of Norman Rockell’s additions to Benjamin Franklin’s legendary Poor Richard Almanack. Franklin began publishing his almanack in 1732, and it was so wildly popular (eventually selling over 10,000 copies) that he put out new editions for 25 years. Even Napoleon Bonaparte was a fan, and had it translated into Italian (the French was already immensely popular). The Almanack contained many things – poems, meteorological and astronomical information among them – but is today most famous for Franklin’s proverbs and aphorisms, such as “He who lives upon hope will die fasting.”
This collectible volume, produced by the Limited Editions Club in 1964, weds Franklin’s earthy, homespun wisdom with the splendidly colorful and organized compositions of Norman Rockwell. …
